Love is In The Air

(0:00) Hi, this is Dr. Daniels and you're listening to Healing with Dr. Daniels. This is the Sunday, February 28th, 2021 edition. And today's topic is love is in the air.

(0:17) Today I'm going to chronicle the cultural changes in the past year and the signs of a positive future and why it's important, why should you care?

(0:24) But first, update on mom. Oh my God. So mom, with her leg that the doctors recommended she amputate, is now standing, pivoting, and taking steps.

(0:42) And at the age of 89, showing amazing progress and looking forward to her 90th birthday, which is going to be in about eight months. So we shall see. So nothing but good news on that front.

(0:56) Next, let us take our turpentine. Yay. So we have got our sugar. And as I say, whenever you do things at home, you must label them. You don't have any government regulation going on or anything. So you've got to take your own precautions.

(1:19) In this case, even though it's just granulated white sugar, it's important to label it because it could be vitamin C powder. It could be lots of other white powders, salt or whatever. So you want to label it so you don't give yourself any surprises.

(1:38) All right. Next, we have turpentine. Yay. As you can see, this is not certified labeling. This is just enough labeling so I know and anyone else would know it's turpentine. It's not lemonade.

(1:53) All right. So we just unscrew our top right here. And we have our disposable pipette, which we reuse constantly until it falls apart.

(2:01) And squeeze. Bam. There we go. That looks good. It goes right to the neck, the neck of the pipette right there. And that happens to be 2.5 cc, which happens to be the amount that I take, which also happens to be half a teaspoon.

(2:24) All right. We have here a sugar. And this sugar is on a teaspoon, not a dessert spoon. And we squirt this whole thing right there. Done.

(2:48) Then we have our water. Yay. Let's hear it for water.

(2:53) You're probably wondering why do I put the water in my mouth first? I put the water in my mouth first because that allows the water to lift the sugar and turpentine off the spoon so I have minimal contact with anything in my mouth and I can just, it just elevates off the spoon and goes straight down my throat. Takes a little bit of coordination to figure it out, but it is well worth it.

(3:12) Some people say, don't you Daniel, should I just swish that around my mouth? No, don't do it. It does not taste good. Your body will not forgive you if you do that.

(3:26) Oh, so why take turpentine? Turpentine is awesome. So turpentine not only gets rid of parasites, but immediately repairs damaged cell membranes. And this is why when people take turpentine, they have, they feel better within minutes.

(3:47) And if you want more information about turpentine, then go to vitalitycapsules.com and download the report, which is no charge. You do have to enter your email address, download the report, and it tells you all about turpentine, which after reading the report, you may decide you'd like to use it, or you may decide you don't want to use it, which is fine.

(4:04) Okay. And this is Shilajit. Shilajit is a trace mineral supplement, extremely important, especially with modern lifestyles, because we have, what do we have? We have flush toilets. Now you could ask, what does a flush toilet got to do with Shilajit? Because we have flush toilets, we flush our waste down the toilet and out to the nearest river or ocean.

(4:32) We don't take our waste, which is filled with minerals, and fertilize our crops with it. So this means that many trace minerals that we require are lost. They're not recycled. They're not in our food cycle. And so this is Shilajit, which is a very rich mineral source from the mountains of Russia. And it helps us fix that broken mineral cycle.

(5:04) So I'm gonna take this off, a little muscle here. Okay. So this is very, very gooey black tar. And it can be pretty sticky where it just sticks to, honestly, everything but the top, making it hard to get off.

(5:24) So we're gonna put a little chopstick in here, which I find is the easiest thing to use. And because we're in the tropics, this is kind of gooey. If you're further north where it's cooler, this is going to be kind of plasticky.

(5:50) And I'm scraping this off to try and get a minimal amount on my chopstick. And that's a minimal amount, pretty close to 200 milligrams, which is the daily dose.

(5:56) Now I take turpentine every day, or try to. So it comes out to five days a week. And here, I'm gonna put it right here in our water. Yay! As you can see, it does not immediately dissolve. So we just let it set for a while. Be patient.

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(7:07) Now at the end of today's show, we're going to be answering some questions. I might not get to all of them, but if you have questions, you can send them to jdaaniels at gmail.com, and I will consider them for future shows. Yay.

(7:28) Okay, so today's topic, love is in the air. So what's the deal? I mean, it's like, who cares, right? Let's get serious. We're talking about health. We're talking about healing. We're talking about curing.

(7:50) Well, first of all, let's find out what's love got to do with it. What's love got to do with your health? Turns out it's pretty good. If you have love in your life, you have fewer doctor's visits. Yay. Less depression, less substance abuse, or let's just say substance use, lower blood pressure, less anxiety.

(8:10) So when it comes to anxiety, a loving relationship is superior to something new. And strongly connected people showed activation of part of the brain associated with intense love. When they have love, anxiety is less. And so this dopamine reward area is more active. Also, it's natural pain control.

(8:40) So if you're in pain, you're going to experience less pain. It'll be minimized. Better stress management, fewer colds, faster healing, and a longer life. And a happier life too. So these are major, major benefits at a cost of zero dollars. So these are the health benefits of love.

(8:50) But wait, let's figure out what love is. I mean, how do you know you have it, right? Let's figure this out. Now, while this can't be quantified, it can be in a qualitative way assessed.

(9:12) So it's a great interest and pleasure in something, or an intense feeling of deep affection, or to feel deep affection for another person, or to like and enjoy very much. So these definitions for our purposes today are adequate.

(9:28) So we're talking about then a deep affection, fondness, tenderness, warmth, even intimacy, or attachment, and liking. So these are things that we are talking about.

(9:48) Now, love, unfortunately, in our world of just rush, rush, rush, is something a lot of times you don't realize you have it until it's gone. You're like, whoa, wait a minute, where'd it go? So I would just like to talk to you about all of the incredible love that I experienced here in Panama when I first arrived.

(10:17) And it was just so overwhelming, and shocking, and surprising, because I came from a first world country where people are very, very regimented, and customs are very different. So the first thing I noticed when I came here was that when you said hello to someone, that was followed within three seconds with a hug.

(10:47) So if you greet someone, say hello to them, and you don't hug them, that's a negative gesture, of I'm not so sure about you, I don't know if I like you. But this cultural practice of embracing someone and giving them a hug when you say hello is just an amazing gesture of love, of affection, and of kindness.

(11:04) The next thing that I noticed was just incredible welcoming of strangers. So when I first came here, actually even now, most of my transportation is walking. Initially, I did it for financial reasons, and now I do it for health reasons. But either way, I'm still spending more time walking.

(11:34) But when I would walk down the street, people would actually stop. So I'm walking, approaching someone, they're approaching me, and I'm about 10 feet away, and they stop. They stop walking, or they walk very slowly. Then as they get closer to me, they say, oh my, you are so beautiful. Welcome to our country. We're so happy that you've come here. Whoa, how's that for a bucket of love?

(11:55) It was just amazing. And then, of course, I was constantly getting lost. My husband was very amazed that he could just leave me someplace. I could turn around, and bam, I was lost.

(12:19) And he, of course, was someone who did reconnaissance for the military, who flew airplanes, navigated ships. He could not understand how I could get lost. Well, I was frequently lost.

(12:34) But I would ask for directions. And you would expect that a stranger might say, oh, well, hmm, hmm, go this way or go that way. Oh, no, no, no. They looked at me, and they'd say, oh, pull out a piece of paper, pencil, draw me a map with squares on it and arrows showing exactly how to get to where I was going. At the time, I was going to the post office, and I would show them a letter to mail it. And they drew me this map to the post office.

(13:12) And it took about, I don't know, a good 10 minutes for them to draw this map and explain this to me. Oh, my goodness, how kind, how kind and loving and considerate and generous this was.

(13:27) Now, it took me, even though the post office was only three blocks away, to be honest, about half an hour to find it. Why was this? Because I was looking for, I was expecting, a building that you walk into. No, it was simply a building. And you don't walk into it, you walk up to one of the many windows on the side, and somebody assists you.

(13:46) And so I did not realize this. And so I literally walked by the post office a few times. But finally, I did find it. But again, that's an incredible amount of helpfulness.

(13:59) Then we have taxis here. And if you use a taxi or Uber, in other cultures, what you'll find is you get in, you're the only person, you give the person your destination, they take you there. And that's reasonable. No, not here. So you'll have a taxi, which is a pretty small car. And you'll generally have the driver and anywhere from four to five people crammed in the taxi. And he just goes along and lets off people and picks up people as he goes.

(14:33) And literally, you're so close together with people that, of course, you make introductions, people tell jokes, you laugh, it's an incredible amount of fun, and get a lot of fun and happiness and liking and love and caring.

(14:59) And I'll just give you an example. So this is before the whole world change event. And my friend and I got into a taxi, there were already three people in there. So us two made five.

(15:07) Well, we were talking and laughing and telling jokes all the way to our destination. We almost didn't even want to get out. We were just having a blast. And so cabbies are everywhere here. You just, it's such a help to get around.

(15:27) And so I would give the cabbies gifts. So if I've been shopping for groceries, I would give them a gift of a fruit, maybe a banana or a few tomatoes or something, or I would give them soft drinks. Or if I just stopped by the Chinese place, some barbecue pork belly, you know, I would give them these gifts to tell them, thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it. Cab ride at that time was only 35 cents. So clearly it was clear to me that these cabbies, you know, could use a little bit of encouragement and the cabbies were always so helpful. They're so nice. And they would say, thank you. That made me feel good for them to tell me, thank you. And it was just love, love, love all day long.

(16:14) And then of course the vendors. So when I would stop and I would buy groceries from the street vendors, something like tomatoes or lettuce or beets or whatever, the vendors would say, thank you. And they would look me in the eye and then throw in a couple of bananas and say, thank you. And if I spent a lot of money, like say, I don't know, $7 or something, I could get six bananas, which is a lot of bananas because of course I didn't have plans for bananas.

(16:47) And then came the edict. Then came the pronouncement. Six feet, social distancing, masking, quarantine, spraying hands. And now to go into a store, you have to get your temperature taken and step on this square thing full of suspicious liquid and get your hands sprayed.

(17:16) The cabbies are now driving, or at that time were driving with masks and some had double masks, double mask and a visor and plastic sheet between the front and back seat. And when you give them gifts or offer them gifts, they refuse them out of fear. And definitely no more party in the back because now a cabbie can only take one person at a time or one family and no more hugs. It was very, very, very sad. Very sad.

(17:50) I have to say also in the old days you had concerned neighbors, not like America. In America, concerned neighbors, they'll tell you to cut your grass. Here, concerned neighbors, oh my gosh, you come home and I would come home late. So late for me is like 6:30 in the evening. That's late.

(18:07) And one time I came home and my neighbor was waiting for me, literally standing between me and my door. And so me coming from the United States was like, oh no, what did I do wrong? What did I do wrong? And my neighbor said to me, how are you? And I said, okay, this is a, this is an easy question. Oh, I'm fine. And she says, Hmm, I think you're working too hard. I said, huh? She says, oh yes, I think you're working too hard. I said, oh, well, I guess that's possible. She said, I've been thinking, I know, I know that you like, you know, you like vegetables and you like plants. I said, oh, that's true.

(18:50) And she's like, there's a group of ladies and they're only three blocks from here. And it's a group and they talk about growing vegetables and plants and they get together and they meet from time to time. I think that you would like them a lot. I think you should join that group. I said, oh, well, thank you. It's just out of the blue. And I was just so touched at this caring from my neighbor.

(19:12) So that was before the situation. So now things are much different. So now, you know, there's this big distancing, cabbies don't take gifts anymore. There's this big plastic sheet. You can barely pay them through the little cutout, this little cutout flap, you know, where you can hand them the money. And there's really no more party in the back. And so I was like really sad, like, where did all the love go?

(19:45) But now things are different. Cabbies have gotten rid of the plastic sheets. Plastic sheets are gone. They do still have a mask, gives you one mask, no more visors. But the cabbies are now accepting my home-cooked treats.

(20:05) Just the other day, I gave a cabbie my yucca bread. So I make a bread out of yucca. It's got yucca, coconut cream, my usual spices for friendliness, cardamom, cinnamon, and vanilla. And I offered him this treat. And he said, thank you. I'm like, wow, success.

(20:31) So he took a bite of it. He said, wow, this is very good. I said, thank you very much. I made it myself in my own kitchen. He said, wow, that's fantastic. Took a second bite. He said, I think I love you. I said, wonderful. Thank you. Of course, we had a wonderful time. And he drove me all the way to my destination. And I said, aha, things are picking up.

(20:57) And today I did my usual walk around the block. And my neighbor came out of her house, waved, and said, how are you? And she pulled in a chair, have a seat. We had no social distancing. She whipped her, ripped her mask off. And we chatted and chatted. We had a wonderful time. She says, you know, I'd love to give you avocados, but I have not picked them yet. Would you be able to pick them or help me pick them? I said, absolutely.

(21:24) And so I jumped up. And I saw this tree. And the tree had this big trunk about this big. And trees here are very interesting. They go up about four feet. Then they take a turn, go horizontal for a while, then up a little bit and so on. So you can actually climb a tree pretty quickly and easily. And so I saw the avocados hitting the ground. I said, aha. So I jumped on this tree. And she says, oh, no, no, no, no. That's not the avocado tree. That's the cashew tree. I said, oh, no. And I got on the avocado tree and started pulling avocados. I said, you know, I don't need very many because it's just me. She says, oh, OK. And so she gave me six avocados. I was like, wow, that is so wonderful.

(22:08) So I had a great time. And I finished my walk around the block. Oh, and the vicious dogs. Yes, the vicious dogs. Well, the vicious dogs came out to greet me, did not even bark, and trotted behind me all the way home. I said, wow, now that's not love what is. Usually, they viciously attack, well, anybody and everybody.

(22:35) And the cabbies, of course, they're starting to pick up more than one passenger. And the trucks that come by to sell the vegetables and the fruits. So a usual guy came by yelling bananas, tomatoes, potatoes, all the different things that he offered. He stopped. I said, well, do you have any watermelon? He says, oh, no. I said, don't worry. I'll take carrots and potatoes.

(23:08) So he measured up the carrots and potatoes. He says, well, do you want anything else? I said, no, that's good. He looked at me. He smiled. He said, here, here's two additional bananas. Thank you. I said, oh, you're so welcome. Thank you. And so love is in the air. All these gestures of friendliness and liking this and love are creeping back into the culture. And really the culture is coming back.

(23:40) So this love and kindness and happiness is very energizing and very uplifting for anyone's spirit, for me, but for yourself as well and your health. Remember those benefits, like you said, nothing to sneeze at. Less sickness, less depression, substance abuse, lower blood pressure, less anxiety, natural pain control, better stress management, fewer colds, faster healing, and longer life. And so all of those things are creeping back.

(24:11) So what should you do? Take note, pay attention, pay attention to the people in your environment who are showing you signs of love, signs of liking you, signs of acceptance and appreciate them and reward them.

(24:25) For example, I deliberately bake a plantain and berry covered dish. Well, once every week or two, I bake it and cut it into squares and I freeze it and I make it my business to take one or two with me when I go out to hand out as gifts, to let people know, Hey, I like you. Hey, you're okay. I think you're fine. I'm wishing you a good day. However good it is. I hope it gets even better.

(25:06) So this is important. It's important for you. It's important for your health. It's important for your peace of mind to lower your stress. And so I walk around the block, walk around the block. I say hello to all of my neighbors, even the ones that are wearing a double mask and a visor.

(25:27) And what I have found is they say hello to me. They're happy to see me too. In fact, it was just yesterday during my walk around the block. One of my neighbors, I had not met him before, but he got out of his car. He was wearing a double mask and a visor, and he clearly had a And so I said to him, hello, how are you? And I'll listen Spanish. And he says to me, hello, neighbor. Like, wow. He recognized me as his neighbor. I was so excited and happy.

(25:55) So very important. Don't miss it. People all around you are sending you messages of love, messages of kindness, acceptance. Pay attention to those because just recognizing those messages, appreciating them and accepting them improves your health. And it's free. It's free. So very, very nice.

(26:25) And of course, be sure to send out your share of positive messages of acceptance, liking, and kindness.

(26:35) Okay. And that brings us to questions. Okay. Let's see. How are we doing on time? Oh, we got time. Okay.

(26:55) Hi, Dr. Daniels. Before taking vitality capsules, my stool is solid, but not three times a day. Since taking vitality capsules, my stools are loose. Is that okay in order to get the three poops a day you said we need? Absolutely. A lot of people worry about the consistency of their stools. Irrelevant. What is relevant is that it's out. So yes, that's excellent. That is fine.

(27:21) By taking the vitality capsules, will the body no longer be able to have bowel movements on its own and think it needs the vitality capsules to have the bowel movements? No. What will happen if you stop the vitality capsules is you will go back to where you were before you took them because there is no such thing as a natural bowel movement. Your bowel movements are the result of how much water you drink, how much walking you do, and the types of food that you eat.

(27:46) There are types of food like beets, celery, that create bowel movements. When you eat those foods, bam, you're going to have more bowel movements. Taking vitality capsules, vitality capsules by the way are simply spices like garlic, cayenne, ginger, among other ingredients, other herbs, they're in a capsule. So if you simply take it upon yourself to put say tons of garlic and cayenne pepper in your foods, then you're going to have more bowel movements.

(28:29) So the vitality capsules are a convenience that circumvents the reality in our culture that many people simply aren't eating enough foods that cause bowel movements.

(28:47) Hi, Dr. Daniels. Thank you for everything you do. You're welcome. I am taking your vitality capsules and I'm having very good benefits from them. I was wondering, what do you think about taking probiotics? In general, it's a very bad idea. That's a pretty broad statement, but for most people, it's not a good idea. Probiotics, for those of you who are listening and might not be familiar, is the practice of taking living bacteria or organisms and eating them and that these organisms are somehow beneficial for you.

(29:26) Most organisms that you put in your mouth are beneficial in certain amounts and harmful in other amounts. And this is the problem with probiotics. The amount of probiotics in the preparation that you choose might actually be unhealthy or hazardous for you. And once you've made that mistake, it's very difficult to undo it. Much better to have a diverse diet of certain meats, for example, like animal organ parts and spare parts. The word is OFAL, O-F-F-A-L.

(30:05) These parts of the animal contain the probiotics, but in amounts, if you cook them, please cook them, that your body can accept. So I would say it's much better to get your organisms from your food in the form of OFAL, O-F-F-A-L. Some people will eat fermented foods like sauerkraut. My favorite is sauerkraut juice, actually. But what I would say is if you are feeling fine, I would totally not recommend probiotics. I would recommend you continue what you're doing and continue feeling fine.

(30:53) Okay. All right. I think that is all the questions we have time for. We're right at our 30-minute mark. If I have not gotten to your question, it's entirely possible I might get to it in another episode. If you feel your question is more urgent, then you can go to vitalitycapsules.com and appointments are available.

(31:11) All right. That's it for today. And remember, love is in the air. And as always, think happens.